Crossword Answers For: Tuesday, June 23, 2020

Across Clues and Answers:

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1 Across: Poinsettia's plant family => SPURGE
7 Across: Twins' player who, on June 9, 1966, participated in hitting one of a record 5 home runs in the 7th inning => TONYOLIVA
11 Across: Stealthy and agile kind of person who makes an illegal living rifling through vehicle glove compartments? => CARBURGLAR
12 Across: Fred ___, Thomas Edison employee who was filmed sneezing in a 5 second short in 1894 making it the oldest copyrighted movie => OTT
13 Across: Online choice when you're ordering your I Like Parrots T-shirt (abbr.) => LGE
14 Across: Violet Palmer created history when she took this position at the NBA season opener on October 31, 1997 => REF
15 Across: Name of the quarterly journal that publishes articles on bogs, wetlands and peat => SUO
16 Across: Oldest pro musical ensemble in the Southwest, target of a musicians' walkout in 1950 over lack of pay (abbr.) => TSO
17 Across: First name of the NW Missouri State U. president (1921-45) after which Maryville's Lamkin Activity Center is named => UEL
18 Across: Long-lived European fish, now critically endangered, that has declined in numbers by about 90% or more in fifty years => EEL
19 Across: US Pairs skating champion (2000-02) and U.S. Figure Skating Hall of Fame inductee, Kyoko ___ => INA
20 Across: Among at least 33 people bearing this name, there are the wonderworker, the Patrician and the Aleut => SAINTPETER
25 Across: What a bungee cord does before it yanks you away from the rushing rapids under the bridge you've just jumped off => ELONGATES
26 Across: Many batteries are often called this even though the name is a registered trademark of the SAFT Corporation => NICADS

Down Clues and Answers:

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1 Down: Tennessee has a plow, a bundle of wheat and a cotton plant on theirs => STATESEAL
2 Down: Bill Gates' financial planner likely has quite an impressive one of these => PORTFOLIO
3 Down: Oldest English language college in Canada, with campuses in Fredericton and Saint John (abbr.) => UNB
4 Down: Main character in Capcom's Street Fighter series whose special move was the subject of a scientific work last year => RYU
5 Down: Queens College philosophy professor John Lange, writing as John Norman, set a series of sword and planet novels on this planet => GOR
6 Down: Taina, who starred as Fisher in 1959's The 39 Steps => ELG
8 Down: Like a sledgehammer for tapping in a one inch nail, say => ILLSUITED
9 Down: Quality that's often expressed when you utter the phrase You know what I mean, or sorta or about => VAGUENESS
10 Down: Like the tissue that's inevitably traumatized when you go for that neat nipple ring insertion => AREOLAR
11 Down: Wines made from this grape variety are long known to be favored by restaurants in the port of Genoa => CORTESE
21 Down: Abbreviation for the type of lease that designates the tenant to be responsible for paying real estate taxes, maintenance and insurance => NNN
22 Down: Friday's preceder, in restaurant terminology => TGI
23 Down: Org. that receives contributions from members and donates them to official campaign groups or toward ballot initiatives => PAC
24 Down: When the pilot and flight crew are set to land, for short => ETA

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This crossword has 14 across clues and 15 down clues. In total 29 clues are solved in the section above.
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